WAKEFIELD, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc., today announced that Dynisco (Franklin, MA.),
has selected the Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA®) product
costing software to improve cross-functional team collaboration and
ensure design cost targets are achieved. The DFMA software will allow
Dynisco to continue to increase the performance and cost efficiency of
its measurement instrumentation products for the plastic, industrial,
rubber and composite industries, where it is a recognized leader
worldwide.

“We needed the ability to benchmark and capture
data relating to part count and unique parts on our existing designs and
compare them to future designs. The DFMA software allows us now to
achieve this while monitoring our incremental improvements throughout
the design cycle.”

With a focus on customer satisfaction, the company first explored DFMA
in redesign workshops as part of Dynisco’s Continuous Improvement
initiative. Various products from the different Dynisco companies were
analyzed as part of those training events. What the company discovered
was a much better collaboration between the cross-functional teams when
reviewing designs, as well as an increase in the number of new ideas and
improvements generated.

“We determined that the DFMA software provided a very structured,
time-savings approach for us,” said Kevin Dailida, Director of Product
and Process Improvement at Dynisco. “Our cross-functional teams are now
using Design for Assembly [DFA] to evaluate early prototypes while also
establishing a framework for the future process flow. Additionally, we
are using Design for Manufacture [DFM] to benchmark ‘should cost’
estimates against supplier quotes in order to ensure that bids are in
line with design cost targets.”

DFMA software is a combination of two complementary analysis tools:
Engineers use DFA software to assess the structural efficiency of their
products and then reduce the assembly cost by consolidating individual
parts into elegant, multifunctional designs. DFM software allows
developers to examine competing material and process choices and quickly
judge the cost trade-offs of producing new designs against the original
assembly.

“Design drives cost,” stated John Biagioni, Vice President of Supply
Chain and Operations. “We needed the ability to benchmark and capture
data relating to part count and unique parts on our existing designs and
compare them to future designs. The DFMA software allows us now to
achieve this while monitoring our incremental improvements throughout
the design cycle.”

Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc. was the first company to commercialize Design
for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) methodologies and software tools,
which make it possible to evaluate, estimate, and reduce the
manufacturing cost of a product in the design phase through product
simplification and cost estimation. Hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies,
including General Electric, John Deere, Motorola, Pratt & Whitney, and
Whirlpool, use DFMA to cut the costs of their manufactured products and
achieve design innovation in their markets. The company was founded in
1983 and received the National Medal of Technology Award in 1991. For
more information about DFMA software, workshops, consulting services,
and international conferences, contact Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc., 138
Main Street, Wakefield, RI 02879, USA. Tel. (401) 783-5840. Fax (401)
783-6872. Web site: www.dfma.com.
E-mail: info@dfma.com.